Robert Cornthwaite(1917–2006)

Robert Cornthwaite first got hooked on acting at age 13, when he was forced to play a one-line part in an eighth grade play. He did his first work with professionals five years later, in a 1935 production of "Twelfth Night" on the Reed College campus in Portland. He worked in radio in Southern California before he was inducted into the Air Force ... See full bio »

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I prefer theater; it's far more liberating for the actor than film. Writers, directors, editors and cameramen -- those are the creative people in film. Actors are out of necessity farther down on the totem pole, although they don't like to think so and many of them don't admit it. But they're relatively unimportant. They are things being manipulated by these other people. I like theater because ... See more
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Interviewed in Tom Weaver's book "They Fought in the Creature Features" (McFarland & Co., 1995). See more
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